Saturday, 20 December 2014

This
is the fifth article about various countries' navies today. In these
articles, I briefly describe a country's naval fleet
by reporting the ships in each type/category of warships and by
providing a
nice image where all the types of warships are illustrated and the
units of its class are reported. I include the vessels that will enter
in service this year and I have excluded those that are about to be
decommissioned. I deliberately excluded many classes of
auxiliary ships; those that they have "0" defence capacity and those
that have secondary roles such as hydrographic survey ships, tugs,
depollution vessels and training ships.

Royal Netherlands Navy (Koninklijke Marine)The Royal Netherlands Navy in 2017 (updated) consists of the following warships: